Birendranagar, Dec. 14 -- Complaints against the local governments of Karnali Province at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) are surging in recent times. The residents of the province have lodged several complaints with the anti-graft body claiming that the local units were involved in irregularities while carrying out development projects.

The data available at the CIAA provincial office in Surkhet shows that 331 cases against the local units were filed in the first four months of the current fiscal year. "The cases against the local bodies and the people's representatives have increased by about 24 percent in the first four months of the current fiscal year compared to the last fiscal," said Meghraj Sapko...